Between Citizenship and Human Rights: the struggle for justice after the 1965 violence (Hearman, 2018)
Hearman's 2018 article on how 1965 survivors and NGOs shifted from an inclusive citizenship strategy (1998-2004) to a 'boomerang' appeal to international norms, with stalled domestic justice. Context on the post-1998 struggle for justice.
Sexual politics: slander against women's organisations after independence (Pohan, 2018)
Muslim Pohan's 2018 short article on the sexual politics and slander against women's organisations in the shift to the New Order, relying on Wieringa; includes the army's takeover of the army-wives' organisation Persit and Kowani dropping 8 March. Secondary synthesis.
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 (Robinson, 2018)
Geoffrey Robinson's 2018 synthesis of the 1965-66 violence (about 500,000 killed, a million detained), arguing the army provoked and organised it, the US and allies facilitated it, and colonial and Cold War history set the preconditions. Context; Gerwani in the propaganda chapters.
Francisca de Haan's 2018 chapter proposing a 'global left-feminist 1960s' led by the WIDF network, from the 1953 Copenhagen Congress (whose declaration reached Indonesia) to the 1963 Moscow congress. Frames WIDF transnationalism relevant to Gerwani.
Shadow Imaginations: Transpacific Approaches to Post-1965 Indonesian Archives (Lasmana, 2018)
Viola Lasmana's 2018 USC dissertation reading literary, film and digital works as 'shadow imagination' counter-archives that talk back to the New Order master archive of 1965. Literary-cultural study; Gerwani peripheral.
Women's narratives of the Indonesian Revolution (Rahayu, 2018)
Ruth Indiah Rahayu's 16 Aug 2018 essay on women's narratives of the Indonesian Revolution, arguing 17 Aug 1945 is one occurrence in a complex event and that male-authored histories centre elites. Historiographical essay; Gerwani peripheral.